Something rare, on the Bouddi Peninsula.

Rinaldo Fabbro built Rosa in the mid 1990s. We've spent a year giving it the interior it always deserved.

4 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · Carport · 239 m² internal · Pretty Beach, NSW

Solid Hebel concrete on a quiet rear lot facing Turo Reserve, with the water beyond. Re-finished in mineral, timber and bronze, in materials chosen to age slowly and look better for being lived in.

Hand-made Victorian Ash soaking bath with bronze tapware against a lime-washed wall.

Bath: A soaking bath, made by hand from Victorian Ash.

An outdoor patio area with white chairs, one with a brown pillow, a brown woven basket, and a gravel ground. There are two black BBQ grills, one on a white counter, and a small potted plant. Green foliage and a vertical garden with potted plants are visible in the background, along with wooden privacy fences and a pergola overhead.

Alfresco: An outdoor kitchen alongside seven metres of living garden.

Living room with a brown sofa, sheer curtains, lime-washed walls and an oak batten screen.

Living: Plaster, oak and morning light.

See the house

You already know his concrete. You've stood under it.

Fabbro's firm made the precast for the National Carillon in Canberra, and his work includes the Gosford Library. Rosa is the same material, and the same patience, at domestic scale.

The Architect

Between Brisbane Water and Bouddi National Park.

Ferries, wharves, bush tracks and empty beaches, all on the doorstep.

The Peninsula